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Syria Risks 'Full-Fledged Civil War' Unless Assad Ends Crackdown, UN Says
Bloomberg
The panel will is scheduled to vote later today on a draft resolution on how to act on the report's findings. Soldiers who left the al-Assad's army to set up an opposition force known as the FreeSyrian Army have called for a no-fly zone and two buffer ...
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Bashar al-Assad insists killings and torture in Syria are beyond his control
The Guardian
Syria's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, has defiantly rebuffed allegations from around the world that his government is waging a bloody crackdown on protesters, which the UN says has led to the deaths of 4000 people. Assad used an interview with...
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The Guardian
Violence in Syria swells as Biden urges Assad to go
BBC News
At least 23 people have been killed in Syria as violence between army defectors and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad swells, activists said. The UN estimates 4000 people have been killed during a crackdown on anti-government protests. ...
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BBC News
Clinton to Syrian opposition: Ousting al-Assad is only first step in transition
CNN International
Before he left, al-Assad supporters attacked the US Embassy and the ambassador's convoy. TheUnited Nations estimates more than 4000 people have been killed in Syria since February, when al-Assad began attempting to put down anti-government protests ...
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Assad denies ordering crackdown in Syria
STLtoday.com
Assad demanded to see evidence. "Who said that the United Nations is a credible institution?" he asked. He blamed the bloodshed on criminals, religious extremists and terrorists sympathetic to al-Qaida who he said were blending in with peaceful ...
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Biden urges Turkey to impose new sanctions on Iran
The Associated Press
Biden's comments — published Friday in the Turkish daily Hurriyet — raise further pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime. A top UN human rights official warned Thursday that Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4000 people dead...
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The Associated Press
Barbara Walters grills Assad on deaths: 'Is this news to you?'
Globe and Mail
Mr. Assad then tells the veteran ABC News interviewer: “There was no command to kill or to be brutal.” The Syrian president has given few interviews since the nine-month uprising that has killed more than 4000 people so far, the UN estimates. ...
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Globe and Mail
Syria's Assad 'poses threat of sectarian conflict'
AFP
... than 4000 lives according to UN figures, sparking mounting sectarian violence in protest centres such as third-largest city Homs. In the region, Assad's main ally is Shiite Iran. Biden said the "number one objective" was to get the Syrian regime to ...
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AFP
At least 23 dead in Syria as UN slams rights violations
AFP
The fresh bloodletting came despite the UN resolution which the Syrian foreign ministry dismissed as "unjust" and "politically motivated" by enemies of the embattled regime of President Bashar al-Assad. In the northwestern city of Idlib, a focal point ...
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AFP
Assad sends message: Army test-fires Scud missile
infolive.tv
The drill is apparently aimed at showing the region's nations that Syria's army is still functioning despite the civil uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime, which, according to the UN, has claimed some 4000 lives so far.
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Syria foreign ministry: UN vote on human rights violations “unjust and hostile”
eTaiwan News
... to all UN relevant bodies” a report by its independent International Commission of Inquiry, which found “gross violations of human rights” had been committed in Syria">Syria since protests against al-Assad's government began in mid-March. ...
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Nasrallah: We're building up our arsenal
Jerusalem Post
He reiterated his support for his Syrian ally, President Bashar Assad, and described his government as a "resistance regime". The eight-month-old revolt against Assad's rule has resulted in some 3500 deaths, according to UN estimates. ...
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Syrian government reportedly bans use of Apple iPhone
Los Angeles Times
Since the Syrian protests began Jan. 26, opposition groups -- who are calling for political reform and the ouster of President Bashar Assad, an increase in civil and human rights and a democratic government -- have used devices such as smartphones to ...
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Only 'crazy' leaders kill own people - Assad
Times LIVE
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has denied ordering his troops to kill peaceful demonstrators, telling the US television channel ABC that only a "crazy" leader kills his own people. Assad is under mounting international pressure, including a threat of ...
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Syria's Bashar Al-Assad Denies Crackdown
Huffington Post
Assad maintains he did not give a command "to kill or be brutal." The UN estimates some 4000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March. Activists say most of those killed were civilians.
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Why Russia is backing Syria
The Guardian (blog)
While an international noose is tightening around the neck of Bashar-al Assad's regime in Syria, with Turkey this week doing most of the pulling, one country, other than Iran, is intent on bucking the trend – Russia. A day after the UN human rights ...
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The Guardian (blog)
'Blow-fly zone' takes hold over Syria
Asia Times Online
To speak even more plainly, Syria under Assad isn't Libya under Gaddafi or Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milosevic. Among the major Russia-Syria arms contracts already delivered are 36 Panzir-1S air defense missile systems and upgrades of the Syrian Army ...
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Russia sends ship-killer missiles to Syria
UPI.com
5 (UPI) -- Russia, a key backer of the beleaguered regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is reported to have delivered supersonic Yakhont SS-N-26 anti-ship cruise missiles to Damascus despite calls for a UN arms embargo on the regime. ...
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Fast Change in Syria of Concern to Iraq -- and UN Envoy Kobler?
Inner City Press
That Iraqi Shiite leaders might be concerned about particular Sunni leaders replacedAssad in Syria may be understandable. But does the UN envoy in Iraq have to "share this same aim"? Talabani and Kobler of UN: sharing same aim about Syria? ...
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Inner City Press
Army defectors complicate Syria uprising
Statesman Journal
Assad, and his father before him, stacked key military posts with members of their minority Alawite sect over the past 40 years, ensuring the loyalty of the armed forces by melding the fate of the army and the regime. A recent UN report estimated that ...
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US Watching Syrian Chemical Arms Amid Fear of Attack, Diversion
Global Security Newswire
The Assad regime, though, has earned a reputation for brutality toward its own people. More than 4000 Syrians have been killed in the political uprising that began this past spring, according to the United Nations. The rising body count has US ...
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Global Security Newswire
EU Agrees To Expand Sanctions Against Syria
Wall Street Journal
The EU also said it will "continue to impose additional and more comprehensive measures" againstSyrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime as long as the crackdown continues. The EU has already placed more than 60 people and companies on its Syria ...
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Suspected Drug Dealer Arrested Text Intercepted
Salon
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, already has characterized the conflict inSyria as a civil war. “Who said the United Nations is a credible institution?” Assad said in Wednesday's interview, when Walters asked him about ...
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Briefing: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
And then we've got very stringent sanctions in place against Syria. We believe they're beginning to bite, and we're going to continue to move forward to tighten the noose around Asad's regime. QUESTION: Do you have any reports on – about important ...
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Syrian opposition urge UN Security Council action
AFP
SOFIA — The leader of the main opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) appealed Saturday for a UN Security Council resolution to end the regime's deadly crackdown on civilians, while ruling out military intervention. "What we will seek from the ...
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AFP
Syria bans iphones
Zee News
Meanwhile, fresh violence in Syria left 18 people dead today, most of them killed in a battle between security forces and anti-regime military defectors in a restive northwestern city, activists said. The fighting came a day after the United Nations' ...
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Zee News
Baird says business as usual for Suncor in Syria
CTV.ca
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is sticking to the position that Suncor should be exempt from Canadian sanctions on the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which is increasingly isolated due to its violent crackdown against an eight-month, ...
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CTV.ca
European Union Bans Exports to Syria of Systems for Monitoring Web, Phones
Bloomberg
Earlier this year, Telecomix, a group of online activists, discovered that technology from a US company, Blue Coat Systems Inc., was filtering web sites inside of Syria. TheUnited Nations said today it estimates the death toll from Assad's crackdown ...
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Bloomberg
'Syria solution: Federation without Assad' — RT
By RT
The Western plan to dismantle Syria would mean a terrible civil war, so Bashar Assad should sacrifice his presidency to protect the country from splitting up, believes Professor Johan Galtung, rector of the Transcend Peace University in Switzerland. ... Go to main page News 'Syria solution: Federation without Assad'. MORE ON ... The top UN Human Rights Council has appointed an investigator to probe human rights abuses in Syria made public in the recently published UN report....
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'Toppling Assad is proxy war against Iran' — RT
By RT
Western diplomacy regards the Syrian president as a lost cause, so since he has close ties with Iran, toppling Assad would be a major blow to Tehran, argues UK journalist and author Jonathan Steele. ... The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for military intervention in Syria to bring down the ruling regime as sanctions continue to be piled on Damascus. But political ... handout picture from the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrians waving their national ...
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'Sanctions against Syria won't bear fruit' — RT
By RT
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for military intervention in Syria to bring down the ruling regime as sanctions continue to be piled on Damascus. But political activist Franklin Lamb has doubts on how effective they can ...
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Syria: UN Rights Chief Urges ICC Referral Of Assad Regime For ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Syria's President Bashar Assad – trying to defeat an 8-month-old revolt challenging his autocratic rule – faces widespread international condemnation and sanctions over the bloody crackdown. The U.N.says more than 4000 people have died ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Beirut - In Exclusive ABC Interview: Syria's Assad Denies Ordering ...
By admin
Published on: Today 08:27 AM. News Source: AP ... The U.N. estimates more than 4000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March, many of them civilians and unarmed protesters demanding Assad's ouster. “Who said ...
Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish: What's News?)
Despite Promises From Assad, ABC News Crew Encountered ...
By By ROBERT MACKEY
An ABC News crew that traveled to Dara'a, the Syrian city where the uprising began, was not allowed to work freely, despite personal guarantees from Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad.
The Lede
UN: Syria now in a civil war with 4000 dead — Maine News ...
By UnBylined
BEIRUT — Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad's regime, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday.
Bangor Daily News
Walters Said Syrian Trip Frightened Her | XFINITY TV News
By Chris Pursell
In excerpts aired by ABC Wednesday, Assad denied ordering a violent crackdown on residents and denounced the United Nations when Walters asked about the U.N.'s claim that there had been widespread killings and torture of protesters in ...
XFINITY TV News
Syria on cusp of civil war, death toll 4000-UN - Stabroek News ...
By Stabroek staff
GENEVA, (Reuters) - Syria is on the cusp of civil war as rebel soldiers and others take up arms against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the top U.N. human rights official said yesterday. Bashar al-Assad. High Commissioner for ...
Stabroek News
Syria's Assad denies ordering deadly crackdown
By The New York Times
PARIS — President Bashar Assad of Syria, speaking in a rare television interview broadcast Wednesday, denied ordering the bloody crackdown that has convulsed his land for the past nine months. Assad disputed a United Nations estimate that 4000 people had been killed as protesters took to the streets of cities across his land demanding that he step down. “We don't kill our people,” he said in the interview, excerpts of which were posted online by ABC News. “No government in the...
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Wednesday 7 December 2011 : Support Kurds in Syria
By sks
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: Summary (07/12/2011) : 10 Martyrs have fallen today most of them are in Homs city among them 2 women, Hama is under heavy siege while Saraqeb is being under shelling since early morning. And can't ignore the ... 19:55 Syria said Wednesday it was astonished by US State Department comments, which it said “distorted” the views expressed by President Bashar al-Assad in an interview with US network ABC News. 18:09 The Local ...
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Fifteen dead after Syrian army clashes with rebels - TODAY News ...
The United Nations' top human rights forum has condemned Syria for "gross ... a post-Assad Syriadistanced from anti-Western Iran and Hezbollah and would ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../fifteen-dead-after-syrian-army-clash...
Bashar Al-Assad interview with US TV | Syria News Wire
Syria News Wire header image 2 ... On UN allegations of crimes against humanity: “I would say send us the documents and the concrete evidence that you have, ...
newsfromsyria.com/.../bashar-al-assad-interview-with-us-tv/
US blames Assad for sectarian conflict - News Today
ISTANBUL, Dec 3: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatens to "fan the flames" ... news agency the resolution "set the stage" for further action by the UN and ...
newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news...
Assad Denies Ordering Military Crackdown on Syria's Civilian ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied ordering the military to crack down on ... and a distortion of reality,” Assad said when asked about the UN findings. ... in a televised news conference in Damascus today, said Assad was making no ...
mobile.bloomberg.com/.../assad-denies-ordering-military-crac...
Syria committed crimes against humanity: U.N. report - World news ...
A United Nations commission of inquiry said on Monday Syrian military and ... and rape, and the government of President Bashar al-Assad bore responsibility.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../syria-committed-crimes-against-hum...
Syria's Bashar al-Assad 'feels no guilt' over ... - NineNews Today
Nine News Today ... (BBC News) – Syria's president has said that he feels no guilt about his crackdown on a ... However, Mr Assad said the UN was not credible. ...
www.ninenewstoday.com/syrias-bashar-al-assad-feels-no-guilt...
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